Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar has accused outgoing Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of shredding confidential sanctions-related documents at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, citing insider sources during a press conference in Budapest on Monday. The ministry has not yet responded.
Hungary's Prime Minister elect, Péter Magyar accused outgoing Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of shredding confidential documents.
Magyar made the remarks at an international press conference in Budapest, a day after he and his Tisza Party secured a landslide election victory, winning a two-thirds majority in the Hungarian parliament.
During the election campaign, Szijjártó has been accused of maintaining close ties with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and of offering him Hungary's help to remove Russian individuals from the EU's sanctions list.
Magyar received a note during the press conference, which he immediately shared with reporters.
"I just received the information, I'll share this with you. Many people thought that Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had disappeared, since he couldn't be seen yesterday during Viktor Orbán's victory speech" Magyar said.
"Today at 10 a.m. he appeared at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and since then, he and his most direct colleagues have been shredding documents related to the sanctions materials."
Magyar added that the information comes from insider sources from the ministry, where many officials are actively helping his Tisza Party.
"This is what is happening in Hungary right now. We have known for days that the destruction of documents has begun, not only in the ministries, but also in other background institutions linked to the elites of Orbán" Magyar said.
Hungary's foreign affairs ministry has not yet replied to a request for comment from Euronews.
